Some Characteristics of Traditional Vietnamese Families in History

Tóm tắt

The paper introduces some typical characteristics of Vietnamese family values before its cultural, civilized exchanges, integration with the West. Vietnamese family's fundamental characteristics are categorized into three groups in relation to natural environment, between man to man and inside each person mind. The author argues that those family values are permanent and hardly changed due to fundamental socio-economic factors such as a self-provided small farm production, Vietnamese village stratification, the effects of Confucius ethics, and from cultural perspective that the Vietnamese strong wish to own land. The paper shows that Vietnamese family values are a very potential area with diversified features that needs to gain more research in the coming time.